Emaan M. Osman is the Principal Director of the Acquisition Analysis and Planning Subdivision at The Aerospace Corporation’s Chantilly, Virginia, campus where she oversees an organization dedicated to improving acquisition outcomes for the space enterprise and enabling the next generation of resilient, advanced space-related capabilities to maintain U.S. superiority.
Over the course of nearly three decades of service in the federally funded research and development domain supporting national security, Ms. Osman has held many leadership roles working with a broad sponsor base including the U.S. Navy, the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Air Force, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. Army, the U.S. Space Force, the Department of Energy, NASA, and the Intelligence Community. She has a proven track record of building and leveraging diverse, inclusive, multidisciplinary cross-organizational teams; attracting, developing, and retaining excellent talent; collaboration, and demonstrating strong complex systems engineering skills.
Prior to joining The Aerospace Corporation, Ms. Osman served at MITRE Corporation as the Chief Engineer and Department Head, Naval Enterprise and Sea Systems Department; Lead, Modeling and Simulation Outcome, Naval Division; Deputy Portfolio Director, Mission Enablers; and Department Head, International Operations. She also led MITRE systems engineering support for several projects and regularly advised senior customers. She has done extensive work in acquisition, portfolio management, interoperability and integration, strategic analyses, systems-of-systems engineering, modeling and simulation, architecture, and concepts of operations.
Ms. Osman also served as adjunct faculty for several years at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey.
EDUCATION
Monmouth University, M.S., Software Engineering
University of Waterloo, B.S., Mathematics
Rutgers University, B.S., Computer Science and Mathematics